It's an illustration of the ridiculousness of copyright.
I create a picture in sand, for example. This is now subject to copyright and no one is allowed to make copies without my permission. What happens if the exact same picture is created by wind (or AI, as the case may be)? Can I sue the wind? Are people allowed to make copies as long as they're copying an AI image?
Copyright began as a means to protect writers from big publishing houses, now it's a tool used by big publishing houses to crush creators and stifle innovation that would threaten their status quo (see Disney, Nintendo, etc).
I generally want to loosen copyright authority, so this is fine with me. These people really get off on a stupid tangent though.
It's an illustration of the ridiculousness of copyright.
I create a picture in sand, for example. This is now subject to copyright and no one is allowed to make copies without my permission. What happens if the exact same picture is created by wind (or AI, as the case may be)? Can I sue the wind? Are people allowed to make copies as long as they're copying an AI image?
Copyright began as a means to protect writers from big publishing houses, now it's a tool used by big publishing houses to crush creators and stifle innovation that would threaten their status quo (see Disney, Nintendo, etc).
It's time for "IP" to go.
Then why create?